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Chris Riddell


Born
in Capetown, South Africa
April 13, 1962

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Genre
Politics, Children's Books


Chris Riddell was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was an Anglican priest and a member of the ANC. The family moved to England in 1963, when Riddell was one year old, and he spent his childhood in a number of different locations, as his father moved between parishes. Both of Riddell's parents continued to be active in the anti-apartheid movement.

Chris Riddell is an internationally acclaimed writer and illustrator whose many awards include the Nestlé Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals—the most prestigious prize for illustration in the UK. He is the creator of more than one hundred books for all ages, including the immensely popular series the Edge Chronicles and his latest chapter book series, starring the irrepressibl ...more

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“I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.”
― Chris Riddell, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
tags: art, art-matters, comics, pictures, reading, wisdom, words
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“Lord Goth spent his time riding his hobby horse around the grounds and taking potshots at the garden ornaments with a blunderbuss. Before long he had acquired a reputation for being mad, bad and dangerous to gnomes.”
― Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
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“She gave me peace To want is to lack. That is what it means.”
― Chris Riddell
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